An inaturalist, upupa-epops, alerted me to a recent revision of the Thysania genus*. Conventionally there are 3 species listed in the GBIF database: T. agrippina, T. zenobia, and T. pomponia. The first 2 are represented by many records across the neotropics, and into the US. T. pomponia is an old species designation not reviewed since 1924, to my knowledge. There are few records outside of the British Museum. Now a German team has published a new species, a subset of moths previously identified as the white witch, T. agrippina. These are named as Thysania winbrechiini. The new species is differentiated by morphological features and DNA evidence. T. winbrechiini is further categorized as 2 subspecies. What does this mean about the bigger picture of ecology and life history of Thysania? * Three new taxa of Thysania Dalman, 1824 allied to T. agrippina (Cramer, 1776) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae; Erebinae; Thermesiini) - Ronald Brechlin & Eric van SchayckEntomo-Satsphingia 9 (2): 28 - 33 (Mai 2016) |
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